Realty moves

Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate has appointed Chuck Cwieka as manager of its South San Mateo office. He has previously managed seven other Coldwell Banker offices.

Nathan Heibeck has joined Century 21 Hartford Properties as director of its newly-created brokerage's training department. The San Francisco firm also created a relocation service department, naming Kaye Fryling as its chief.

New REIT officers

Three Bay Area real estate executives have been elected to the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. Elected at the association's recent convention in Dallas were:

T. Robert Burke, principal of AMB Current Income Fund in San Francisco, Gilbert M. Meyer, president and chief executive officer of Bay Apartment Communities in San Jose and Warren E. Spieker, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Spieker Properties, Inc., Menlo Park, CA.

Institutional investors

Mark E. Couchman has been appointed executive vice president for acquisitions at GE Capital Investment Advisors, Ind. Moving from Prudential Realty Group where he was a managing vice president, Couchman will have responsibility for GE's domestic and international real estate equity and debt investment activities. He'll be based in San Francisco.

Money matters

Sutter Mortgage Corp. of Walnut Creek has appointed William Glass as director of builder services. Glass founded and was president of Gallus Inc. of Pleasanton before joining Sutter.

New homes report

Trammel Crow Residential has named Stephen A. Shepardson as director of new business development in its San Mateo office. Shepardson, formerly with Western National Group, will have responsibility for business development for the firm's third-party property management operations.